Spicy Serious
Divinely Devilish
Good catch, if movies and other assorted media have taught us one thing it's that unpracticed hands acting ambitiously in dark arts tends to end badly.
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Skinless: An Undead Journey - OOC
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Stickdom
Salamancer, first class
[QUOTE="Serious Face]Okay, now to start over thinking this.
I think after we check up on our body(which I think could be hiding something that could trip us up at the wrong moment). We should go ahead and bury the dead! (Rhymes!) if not for sentimental reasons I am also a paranoid top-hat and am wary that some sort of zombie
Hodoo-voodo thingy could happen if we don't.
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Not to mention the fact that we are already one of those said zombie hoodoo-voodoo thingies.
[QUOTE="Serious Face]Good catch, if movies and other assorted media have taught us one thing it's that unpracticed hands acting ambitiously in dark arts tends to end badly.
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As stayed above, we are an ex-master wizard, and we were thoroughly versed in many varieties of magic while we were yet alive. How that may or may not have changed by our transformation into the unliving, I'll leave you all to discover and experiment with.
I think after we check up on our body(which I think could be hiding something that could trip us up at the wrong moment). We should go ahead and bury the dead! (Rhymes!) if not for sentimental reasons I am also a paranoid top-hat and am wary that some sort of zombie
Hodoo-voodo thingy could happen if we don't.
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Not to mention the fact that we are already one of those said zombie hoodoo-voodoo thingies.
It's still an option for a write-in if you want. I will say that we have yet to experiment with our magical capabilities since we've become an undead ex-master wizard.Genon said:
[QUOTE="Serious Face]Good catch, if movies and other assorted media have taught us one thing it's that unpracticed hands acting ambitiously in dark arts tends to end badly.
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As stayed above, we are an ex-master wizard, and we were thoroughly versed in many varieties of magic while we were yet alive. How that may or may not have changed by our transformation into the unliving, I'll leave you all to discover and experiment with.
Spicy Serious
Divinely Devilish
Moral choices, yay!
We can either save our son, save our wife, or take the risk of death.....well re-death if I've read that right.
Though there is always the
Write-In, but I got nothing as far as that goes. So I suggest we attempt for both, drastic times and all that.
We can either save our son, save our wife, or take the risk of death.....well re-death if I've read that right.
Though there is always the
Write-In, but I got nothing as far as that goes. So I suggest we attempt for both, drastic times and all that.
Stickdom
Salamancer, first class
[QUOTE="Serious Face]Moral choices, yay!
We can either save our son, save our wife, or take the risk of death.....well re-death if I've read that right.
Though there is always the
Write-In, but I got nothing as far as that goes. So I suggest we attempt for both, drastic times and all that.
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There is always the chance that we can save them both one right after the other, casting the spell twice in a row. That's the issue, however, that we may not have enough power to cast it a second time so soon. We can't be harmed by trying again, mana burn only affects living creatures, which we are not, but since we are not living, we also can't push ourselves to those limits to eke out one more spell, it simply won't work.
To explain mana burn, lemme explain: All souls have a connection to magical power (essentially, a soul is made of magical power, also called mana, but that's details for later), but only some can access and control that connection (Mages). Mortals, e.g. still alive mages, can burn through their mortality to cast more spells than they are normally capable of, if the mana well runs dry, they can borrow power from their lifespan. Undead, e.g. ourselves, don't have that ability, since we have no lifespan to draw off of, and so when the mana well is empty, that's all we've got. The reason liches are so powerful is because they are undead with the bodies of mortals and therefore suffer no repercussions from mana burn, but they can drain the mana wells of living creatures when they run out of power, essentially having infinite power when they have living things to draw from. Technically, we are not a lich since we were made an undead by another entity, not became an undead through a ceremony, but since we were a powerful mage in life, we have a significantly expanded mana well from your common undead mage.
We can either save our son, save our wife, or take the risk of death.....well re-death if I've read that right.
Though there is always the
Write-In, but I got nothing as far as that goes. So I suggest we attempt for both, drastic times and all that.
[/QUOTE]
There is always the chance that we can save them both one right after the other, casting the spell twice in a row. That's the issue, however, that we may not have enough power to cast it a second time so soon. We can't be harmed by trying again, mana burn only affects living creatures, which we are not, but since we are not living, we also can't push ourselves to those limits to eke out one more spell, it simply won't work.
To explain mana burn, lemme explain: All souls have a connection to magical power (essentially, a soul is made of magical power, also called mana, but that's details for later), but only some can access and control that connection (Mages). Mortals, e.g. still alive mages, can burn through their mortality to cast more spells than they are normally capable of, if the mana well runs dry, they can borrow power from their lifespan. Undead, e.g. ourselves, don't have that ability, since we have no lifespan to draw off of, and so when the mana well is empty, that's all we've got. The reason liches are so powerful is because they are undead with the bodies of mortals and therefore suffer no repercussions from mana burn, but they can drain the mana wells of living creatures when they run out of power, essentially having infinite power when they have living things to draw from. Technically, we are not a lich since we were made an undead by another entity, not became an undead through a ceremony, but since we were a powerful mage in life, we have a significantly expanded mana well from your common undead mage.
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Stickdom
Salamancer, first class
@Serious Face Don't be hard on yourself for not thinking of a perfect solution to what I gave you guys to vote on. Some of these choices are going to be uncomfortable and mortally ambiguous, that's by design. You'll have to make hard choices, some of which may turn out okay, and some of which will have terrible consequences. My goal with this story is not to necessarily give you guys a happy-ever-after, it's to watch the character respond to your choices and change based on the actions you give him. This is going to be an adaptive character-based story, I wasn't kidding when I said there were multiple endings to be discovered, and you guys are already steering him towards several, whether you know it or not. So, enjoy watching your choices fundamentally shape this lost soul, for better or worse, and know that how he turns out at the end is solely your responsibility.
Spicy Serious
Divinely Devilish
...*BEEP!*
Well that's not at all what I had hoped for, oh well...at least this is something we can learn from for the future.
Ok anyway I have nothing productive to add but I have to make it known that I'm going to be erratic with being online and being able to vote, probably being inactive for long stretches of time.
I'll vote while I'm here and try to check up when I have the opportunity to.
Hope you don't miss my sparkling wit and charming personality to much while I'm gone.
Well that's not at all what I had hoped for, oh well...at least this is something we can learn from for the future.
Ok anyway I have nothing productive to add but I have to make it known that I'm going to be erratic with being online and being able to vote, probably being inactive for long stretches of time.
I'll vote while I'm here and try to check up when I have the opportunity to.
Hope you don't miss my sparkling wit and charming personality to much while I'm gone.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
A Bold One
Most definitely.Surprise Meteors] [URL="https://www.rpnation.com/profile/18168-fezzes/ said:
archur
watch for the flash
I honestly prefer the Word Bearers khornate beserkers.Fezzes said:
Obi-Wan Kenobi
A Bold One
[QUOTE="Surprise Meteors]I honestly prefer the Word Bearers khornate beserkers.
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Word Bearers are distinctly not Khornate. They're Undivided.
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Word Bearers are distinctly not Khornate. They're Undivided.
archur
watch for the flash
I swear I get these names and armors mixed up sometimes.
What I meant to say was World Eaters, and my favorite guy, Kharn the Betrayer.
And to be honest, he's a pretty nice guy once you get to know him, y'know?
Anyways, blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.
What I meant to say was World Eaters, and my favorite guy, Kharn the Betrayer.
And to be honest, he's a pretty nice guy once you get to know him, y'know?
Anyways, blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
A Bold One
[QUOTE="Surprise Meteors]I swear I get these names and armors mixed up sometimes.
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Fair enough.
[QUOTE="Surprise Meteors]What I meant to say was World Eaters, and my favorite guy, Kharn the Betrayer.
And to be honest, he's a pretty nice guy once you get to know him, y'know?
Anyways, blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.
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I see, I see.
[QUOTE="Surprise Meteors]Kharn the Betrayer
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What a guy.
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Fair enough.
[QUOTE="Surprise Meteors]What I meant to say was World Eaters, and my favorite guy, Kharn the Betrayer.
And to be honest, he's a pretty nice guy once you get to know him, y'know?
Anyways, blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.
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I see, I see.
[QUOTE="Surprise Meteors]Kharn the Betrayer
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What a guy.
archur
watch for the flash
So I was thinking about the 'zerkers.
And I thought to myself, if they have red "paint" due to the blood of their enemies, how often to they keep applying new "paint", because blood turns brown due to the iron oxidization.
And I thought to myself, if they have red "paint" due to the blood of their enemies, how often to they keep applying new "paint", because blood turns brown due to the iron oxidization.
Stickdom
Salamancer, first class
Nah, it's cool, guys. I mean, I prefer topics relating to the story, but if you guys wanna chat it up and be social, I'm not gonna stop you 
